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    • The mandate from voters

      The people of Northern Ireland have done their civic duty. They have mandated the political parties with management responsibility in proportion to their Assembly seats and they now expect them to exercise it. The function of the election was to provide a devolved executive and an Assembly that would deal with everyday economic and social issues. The parties have less than three weeks in which to execute that mandate. p

    • Cyprus gesture politics

      As the feuding tribes on one side of Europe inch towards an uneasy but deeply desired accommodation, so too on the other side of the continent. There are, however, important differences. Progress on one front is rooted firmly in the real politics of powersharing and cabinet building; the other remains mired in gesture politics, symbolisms that often come with more than a hint of one-upmanship. p
    Opinion

    • Trócaire's young girl without a chance lives far closer to home

      A poster illuminates Irish gender inequality, writes Patsy McGarry , Religious Affairs Correspondent p

    • Government not moving fast enough on M50 gridlock

      It would be in the national interest for the M50 upgrade to continue at night and at weekends, writes Feargal Quinn p

    • Not so fragile that ads need to be banned

      After watching Trócaire's Lenten advertising campaign on gender equality on YouTube about a hundred times, I began to wonder about things completely unrelated to my original attempt to discover why it had been subject to a ban, which was upheld yesterday, writes Breda O'Brien. p

    • Green surge could burst the SF bubble as it turns South

      Sinn Féin knows the value its Northern Ireland profile adds to its politics in the Republic. The party is skilfully exploiting the dividend which flows from the proximity of the elections on each side of the Border. Once the polling stations closed in the Assembly elections on Wednesday night, Sinn Féin's focus immediately switched to the forthcoming general election in the Republic, writes Noel Whelan. p

    • Power may be horse of a different colour for Greens

      Inside Politics: Major shifts in Irish politics have come about when one party has managed to capture the mood of the times more accurately than its rivals. With the election campaign due to be called in a month or so it appears that the tide is running strongly in favour of the Greens. They now have a great chance of getting into government for the first time, regardless of how the bigger parties do, writes Stephen Collins. p

    • Gap between urban and rural incomes closes

      Since 1991 the population of our western and northwestern counties has risen by almost one-fifth - at almost the same rate as the population of the rest of the State. And in the most recent period - that between the two latest censuses of 2002 and 2006 - the population of Connacht actually increased fractionally more than the Dublin region, writes Garret FitzGerald p

    • Calamity of Iraq war may push isolated US into wider conflict

      World View: In a comprehensive critique of George W Bush's war in Iraq and a warning of the dangerous course it could take in Iran, Zbigniew Brzezinski says it has been an historic, strategic and moral calamity for the US. The war was undertaken on false pretences and driven by Manichean impulses and imperial hubris. It has undermined US global legitimacy, especially in Europe, where years of patient effort will now be required to restore US credibility, writes  Paul Gillespie. p
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    • An Irishman's Diary

      Vodka freezes at a temperature far lower than water. It is sold in Russia's bars not by its volume, but by its weight. We take charge of a conical flask containing 500 grams, lashing it into small tumblers and making speeches. We raise the glasses; we down the drink. The restaurant is warm and serves Georgian food, and we devour tangy walnut paste wrapped in thinly sliced aubergine, writes John Fleming p
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